Posts Tagged: combat

For service members returning home from combat, PTSD diagnoses are commonplace and extensive. But one VA psychologist argues that the complications of PTSD compound to create a ‘moral injury’ — one that requires a community, not a clinic, in order to heal.

Many of the men who train at the Spartan Academy are combat veterans, recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan. Some have been diagnosed with PTSD. Most are readjusting to civilian life after war. At the gym, they've found a place to work through both.

We’ve been reporting on wait times at Veterans Affairs offices for a few months now, and we’d like you to listen to a few things we’ve heard and tell us how they do (or don’t) correspond with your experience.